These scenes began flashing through my mind just as the Screen Actors Guild Awards began announcing nominations for performance by a cast in a motion picture:
"Birdman" — actors in constricted spaces using dressing rooms and winding corridors...

Italian costume designer Milena Canonero is not new to filmmaker Wes Andersen's quirky universe. She's lent her three-time Oscar-winning skill to "The Darjeeling Limited" and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" and does the same in...

The Tony-winning musical "Kinky Boots" struts into the Pantages, and a fashionable French actress is remembered in the world premiere of "O Réjane" at Bootleg Theater.
Into the Woods Reunion Celebration of the hit musical...

If you've ever watched some chiseled action hero coolly taking out bad guys onscreen and thought to yourself, "How hard could that be?" I have two words for you: Try it.
On a recent afternoon, I paid a visit to 87Eleven in Inglewood, a stunt...

A new fall arts season is our perennial reversal of nature. We enter into it anticipating spring's rebirth and renewal, not autumn's death and destruction. The planting, of course, starts early, typically years early. This fall, though, is an occasion...

'St. Matthew Passion' and 'The Gospel According to the Other Mary'
Oct. 7-8; Nov. 21-Dec. 14
Director Peter Sellars' staging of conductor Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmoniker's presentation of Bach's sacred oratorio has its U.S. premiere as part...

Few filmmakers can be considered as consistently outrageous and downright dangerous as Abel Ferrara. So there is something fitting in the director of "Bad Lieutenant" making a film on the Italian filmmaker, poet, journalist and cultural critic...

Teen fans with smartphones at the ready packed in behind the blue carpet at the Wiltern in Los Angeles for the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards on Sunday, eager to catch sight of the newest crop of young celebs and, let’s be honest, score a selfie to share...

Youth-friendly, English-language directors and film personalities from Asia will anchor the main competition jury at the Cannes Film Festival when it gets underway next month.
Filmmakers Sofia Coppola, and Nicolas Winding Refn will serve on the jury,...

Wes Anderson sweats the details. All of them, all the time, to an extent that can be maddening. But not in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," where the writer-director's familiar style blends with a group of unexpected factors to create a magnificently...

[Warning: This post contains spoilers about the movie “The Fault in Our Stars.”]When Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the writers of the burgeoning film hit "The Fault in Our Stars," first began adapting John Green's bestselling novel, they...

New and recent works by director Robert Wilson, artist Matthew Barney and avant-garde musician John Zorn are among the highlights of the new 2014-15 season of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA.
The lineup, which was announced Wednesday,...

Zack Snyder may not have been the name most often seen atop fans' lists as their dream "Justice League" director. But he turned out a hit in "Man of Steel" and is working away on an expansion of that world in the movie tentatively...

NEW YORK — Mikhail Baryshnikov's earliest experience in the theater began when he was a child of just 4 or 5 in present-day Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union. His mother, a Russian speaker unfamiliar with the local tongue, would drag along her young...

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The M Word
At a struggling Los Angeles TV station, a children's show actress leads her female colleagues as new management arrives from New York on a cost-cutting mission. With Tanna Frederick, Michael Imperioli and Gregory Harrison. Written...

Lars von Trier is in many ways the central casting version of an international art house filmmaker. Or maybe a "Saturday Night Live" parody played straight. Often giving himself the role of the provocateur, Von Trier makes films that dare to...

NEW YORK — When actor Willem Dafoe arrived on the Swedish set of Lars von Trier's "Manderlay" a number of years back, the filmmaker asked if they might meet to discuss Dafoe's role.
It was far from a typical meeting.
Von Trier first asked if...